Africa is the second-largest continent in the world. But this won't always be the case. As per geologists, the tectonic plates that formed the East African Rift continue to move apart. Visible ...

Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54 ... cutting through mountains, rivers and even communities. Most of these artificial borders trace back to the 1884-1885 Berlin ...

Nairobi — Almost all major river basins in Africa have become the epicentres for conflicts over the last 20 years, and agricultural yields on the continent could drop by up to 50 percent in the ...

Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the ...

Rivers were used to map Africa because Europeans were particular about trade routes into the continent. Sixty-two percent of official African boundaries were influenced by historical political ...

Tectonic shifts could lead Africa to split into two continents, and although some argue that these images provide evidence, there is much more to the story. Though no one currently on Earth (or ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

This issue of Africa Focus is dedicated to WWF initiatives from around the continent demonstrating varying ways of ... Africa is blessed with abundant water resources with large rivers like Congo, ...